Oracle Database

“Every enterprise company I've worked for that used Oracle either completely migrated from it or is / was in the process of doing so”

“everywhere I've worked at as a developer, if they ever used Oracle either migrated completely away from it”

“oracle's database is still a good product, with a lot of features that don't have analogs in open source db products”

“Oracle Database is still the gold standard for data in an enterprise setting.”

“Our Oracle license licensing went up so dramatically that the team I work with is moving some very large databases to postgres”

“Oracle is now doing quarterly DB releases. This is not just patches but including big features.”

“licensing for these environments is complicated at best, with the onus of reporting lying on the customer not the cloud provider”

“these days it's just a container launch to do local dev, no different to postgres”

“its DB capabilities are insane. I've never operated it, but all the docs I've read are legitimately impressive.”

“the Oracle's incapacity of reordering tests of different kinds (as in constants, functions, rows...) when optimizing a query”

“Oracle having capabilities that simply didn't exist elsewhere that Salesforce needed to scale”

“they flex well so on the smaller end it can end up being cheaper as you're renting only part of a machine”

“This feature is one big reason so many companies use Oracle, it offers this out of the box.”

“it keeps only the data matching the predicate, it's efficient and it works without disrupting the app”

“the resulting fun times when you'd upgrade the database, something would change, and your hints would make a query slower”

“Good databases like Oracle and SQL Server have great IDEs for stored procedures development.”

“You can create an impenetrable prison for the LLM agents if you are willing to employ old school tech like Postgres, MSSQL or Oracle”

“Oracle DBs have powered enormous numbers of applications and economic value.”

“Most of these problems don't surface with a better database engine and you don't need to do any work to solve them.”

“Oracle can create arbitrary indexes for any relation in the background without it being requested”

“you'll be totally willing to spend huge amounts of money to make sure your data is rock solid”

“Oracle was definitely seen as the more mature and resilient (and expensive!) RDBMS”

“For big multinationals where a minute of downtime is millions of dollars in revenue? Oracle is cheap.”

“Cool stuff like distributed transactions, the database as OS with raw disks, the database as application platform with APEX.”

“You'd have to assume businesses were insane/stupid to go with Oracle to the tune of billions and billions of dollars”

“My recollection was that DB2 did not support multi version concurrency control like Oracle and Postgres did.”

“To get to the level of scale that oracle can handle we had to build sharding and cluster replication from scratch.”

“Oracle buys smaller enterprise companies with rich customers that were already using Oracle DB, or makes them rely on it, then cashes in on licensing.”

“Given the history of their business model being licensing of important databases that are hard to switch off of”

“overpricing the database led to a predictable exodus and new players with often times better performance”

“Oracle is a prime example of this. Stored procedures are the place to put all business logic according to Oracle documentation.”

“enterprise SQL products like Oracle and MS are awful at providing ways to do these reusable cross-cutting concerns consistently”

“the archived logs are mostly rock solid, and standby/Dataguard nodes are always correct”

“I've seen how effective pl/sql can be in complex environments.”

“I remember a developer telling me that Oracle 'was the only real database'.”

“It is essentially the "nobody got fired for buying " of the databases universe.”

“More and more business processes accumulate around the data store, all using some proprietary Oracle extensions.”

“I used to dislike Oracle User Group presentations because it seemed as if most people were just guessing”

“The market for closed sourced databases imploded to basically legacy products that predate when open source databases became a sane default choice.”

“Oracle's seen a lot more business problems and has a big portfolio of past solutions that worked.”